Smirnov posted on his site a list of “people who have the blood of the Kazan victims on their conscience.” The list of 203 names is a kind of Who’s Who in Russian culture. It includes prominent writers Boris Akunin and Lyudmila Ulitskaya, film directors Eldar Ryazanov and Andrei Konchalovsky, and actors Chulpan Khamatova and Sergei Yursky. The archpriest did not make up the list himself. This list of “Russia’s Enemies” has been circulated on anti-Semitic sites for a while now, although it usually has notes after each name to define the “enemy,” such as “Jew,” “half-Jew,” or “Western intelligence agent.”

One problem with trying to figure out what's going on with the economy is that everyone is lying.

Copper is one of the more problematic commodities. How much is there? How much will be needed? Even before you start trying to predict whether the global economy will grow or contract, and then predict future demand, it helps to know how much is currently being used...

Which leads to a conflict of interest. If you own a ton of copper, you don't want people to know it exists. The less copper people think is availible, the more they will think it is worth...